Cranial Facial Reconstruction and Plastic Surgery

Cleft lip surgery (cheiloplasty: unilateral or bilateral) is performed 3 month after birth (or weighs at least 10 pounds). If the tissue deficient is marked, second surgery is inevitable (revision of lip), at the age of 5 ~ 8. Cleft lip nose is also a problem and usually corrected at the time revision of lip is performed.The palatoplasty is performed around 1 to 1.5 year of age. If the cleft is wide and bilateral palatal tissue has deficiency, the palate will be closed in 2 stages to avoid maxillary under development (at around 5 years old).

This depends on several different factors, such as the medical comorbidities, the wound condition, the age of patient, the nutritional status and so on. Generally, it would take you from 5 days to about 2 weeks in the hospital.

Microtia is a kind of developmental anomaly at the first and second branchial arch. The total ear reconstruction is a staged procedure. Implantation of framework (cartilage from the lower costochondral portion) in the subcutaneous portion at the right place is important. Other stages of auricular reconstruction (rotation of ear lobule, tragus construction and detaching the porterior auricular region) will be much easier to be done. The average age for otoplasty is 6 years old.